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The simmering food truck craze has inspired such cable TV fodder as "The Great Food Truck Race", "Food Truck Revolution" and "Eat Street". In the 2014 indie film "Chef" Jon Favreau stars as a Los Angeles chef who gets fired, then heads to his native Miami to pick up a food truck and start anew. Even Olive Garden has its own food trucks now, which the chain uses as promotional vehicles. And on a recent Thursday afternoon at Elgin's outdoor Harvest Market, Angrous Jeffries took a bite out of his duck bacon and prime rib sandwich — slathered with two types of aioli and grilled onions, no less — and savored his first Fox Valley food...

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Kristian Bush, half of the country music superstar duo Sugarland, will play a free show at Musikfest this year.Other free shows will include 1990s band Cracker, which had a half-dozen Top 30 alternative rock hits; indie/roots-rock band Bronze Radio...

Kristian Bush, half of the country music superstar duo Sugarland, will play a free show at Musikfest this year.
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